Monday, May 15, 2017

Home Sweet Home Mini Book

Hello everyone! I hope your weekend was a good one. My parents visited and we did a lot of fun activities; visited an outdoor museum which has animals, and took walks, among other things. Anton also got to learn how to make a ceramic bowl, on one of those tables that turn around and around. We are looking forward to picking it up after it has been burned to see how it turned out.


This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge our theme is Home Sweet Home.  Don't miss the project by our May guest designer Dr Sonia, aka Cards, Crafts, Kids Projects.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Chronicle Worn Cover

When I was thinking about the theme, I got the idea of making a mini album documenting all the homes in which I have lived, nine in total so far, on two continents. I still need to have the photos printed (I don't print my photos at home), so the album is not completely finished yet. I plan to add outdoors and some indoor photos of each place, as well as journaling. As my base, I used Tim Holtz's Chronicle Worn Cover, which is larger (9 x 6.5 in) than the other worn covers. I had fun decorating it.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Chronicle Worn Cover

To change the background, I used Tim's Bricked Stencil and Dina Wakley's lovely Rosy metallic paint. I avoided the framed circle.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Chronicle Worn Cover

There had to be some stamping on the cover, and I used number stamps, an address stamp, a date background, birds and a compass.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

To embellish my cover, I die cut a small globe, and houses from Cityscape SuburbiaCityscape Metropolis, and the Snowglobe sets from Heavyweight paper, as well as clouds from white wool felt. They paper die cuts were coated with Matte Medium, and I also applied Crazing Medium here and there.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

Then I coloured all of them with Distress Crayons.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Mini Globe dies.

The globe fits perfectly in the circle frame on the cover. I glued everything down with Matte Medium, since it both sticks very well and doesn't show.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

As a base for the houses, I used a piece of Design Tape with numbers and applied a little Matte Medium underneath to make sure it is stuck down well.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

The Crazing Medium gives great texture to the houses.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Deco Alpha

I die cut my title from white mat board using the Deco Alpha die. I really like this font. The letters were painted red and stamped with a text stamp. Then I coated them with a layer of Glossy Accents.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

I added some metallic embellishments too, such as this globe. The hearts were done in the same way as the title letters. 

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

I like to mix different textures, and the wool felt, glossy hearts, and crackled houses and globe look fun together.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

A little Mermaid Lagoon paint was rubbed into the lock.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

I also added some air mail arrows in Design Tape form.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

The ring binder was tied with a piece of Linen Ribbon, and I added a key to it.


Here is the back, kept simple with just the bricks and some stamping.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

For the inside, I prepared all the pages, so that I can just add photos. I used Tim's Large Assorted Page Pockets. There are three different types of protectors in the pack with great sizes: 3 x 4, 2 x 3 and 3 x 3, as well as a couple of thinner strips here and there. I mainly used Tim's 8 x 8 in paper pads and if you cut the papers cleverly, you can basically use every piece of each paper.


I used one pack of page protectors here, but I need to get a second one to add to the album. I was also out of the large ring binders, and will buy them instead, since the thin one you see here will be too small, once all the pages and photos are in the album.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz idea-ology papers

The Zebra strip by Graphic 45 was a left-over from another project, the rest of the papers are all by Tim. I will add stamping to the inside pages, once I have the photos.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz Sizzix Cityscape dies.

I picked a mix of neutral, number, postage, travel and map themed papers.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz idea-ology

You can also alter the inside covers. I stenciled the pretty Floral stencil and added some stamping. I might add journaling later.

Layers of ink - Home Sweet Home Mini Book by Anna-Karin with Tim Holtz idea-ology

And here is the back inside cover.

I really hope you will join us in our Home Sweet Home challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.



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Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!!

Anna-Karin

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16 comments:

  1. What a fabulous album Anna-karin! the cover is gorgeous and I love that you have all the paper inserts ready to pop your photos into. LOVE it :-)

    luv
    Lols x x x

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  2. Great idea, I'm sure the boys will love looking at all the places you have lived. I love the cover with the globe and houses and different textures. Fantastic!

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  3. Wow, I love this idea, Anna-Karin. I've lived in several different places too and putting an album together with all the wonderful memories is a great idea. Love the cover and all the amazing details you put into it!

    Cathie ♥

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  4. Love this idea, Anna-Karin! What a treasure it will be filled with memories of your homes - bet your boys will love it! Wonderful textures on some of those houses! Anton, maybe you will share you bowl when you get it? I'd love to see what you made! xx Maura

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  5. What a cool idea to make an album with homes you have lived! This made me count my homes cause I have never thought about this. Not so many as yours, four only. You won :-) I love the cover a lot. The little houses are great and the font of HOMES is really amazing, I love how you made it shine. Hugs, Marzena

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  6. This is such a lovely album! Anna-Karin. The cover you created is so fun and beautiful! Love all the cute and delightful elements. :)

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  7. Great brickwork background, and the textures and details on the houses looks fantastic. The inner pages are going to look so cool when they have all the photos added.
    Alison x

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  8. This is such a great idea Anna-Karin. A cool book with tons of inspiration. I want to make a travel journal for our road trip this summer. We will be traveling through 4 Provinces so I'd like to make a journal depicting each Province with ample place to write each day so I can scrap book everything at a later date. This really inspires me! TFS!

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  9. Your album is amazing! I love all the layering and details you do to each element, not only the overall album. The stamping on the die cuts, the colouring over the mediums and the beautiful finishes to embellishments to make them unique. The pretty mix of patterned papers for the pages are beautiful in themselves before even being trimmed. Thank you so much for sharing so many awesome ideas! :)

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  10. This is a beautiful piece and I am so impressed at how you incorporated the design that was already on your album cover-- like how you fit the globe perfectly into the circle that was there. You always integrate things so wonderfully!

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  11. Fabulous is always synonymous with your work, Anna-Karin!

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  12. This is such a happy project and I love the design of the cover...fabulous work as always, Anna-Karin! :)

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  13. beautiful decoration on your worn cover Anna-Karin...a treasure to keep forever...hugs kath xxx

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  14. I love your mini book!!! awesome use of the houses!!! Love love love!

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  15. Great project! love your idea and every detail is fantastic! You're always an inspiration for me! barbara

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